tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8615175Tue, 07 Oct 2014 01:27:50 +0000gun controlpoliticsself-defense2nd Amendmentcivil rightshumorconcealed carryevil gunsTrainingknee-jerk reactionismCongressITKentuckyLiving with catspoliceGreatBlueWhaleResponsible, law-abiding adults should be able to carry any place they have a right to be.http://greatbluewhale.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (GreatBlueWhale)Blogger565125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8615175.post-8217226681301906085Sun, 08 Jul 2012 16:35:00 +00002012-07-08T12:38:28.313-04:00Heat, sweat, and skateboard tape...We often say gun control means hitting what you aim at. That's kind of hard to do when the grip on your preferred piece is sliding around in your hand when you shoot.
Over at View from the Porch, Tam says, "I need to do something to texture the grip of my M&P; my palms were so
sweaty that that thing squirmed in my hands like an eel every time a shot broke.
I don't know how much texturing you http://greatbluewhale.blogspot.com/2012/07/we-often-say-gun-control-means-hitting.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (GreatBlueWhale)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8615175.post-7477021272829143878Tue, 20 Mar 2012 23:34:00 +00002012-03-20T19:34:00.323-04:00Kentucky Gun Shows through December 2012If you know of any others, I'd be happy to include them.
Mar 24-25 Cave City, Convention
Center, Sat 9-5 sun 9-4 Website David Fulton
270-749-2109
Mar 24-25 London Laural London
Optimist Club, 383 Sinking Creek Rd RK Shows 563-927-8176
email: kehrli@n-connect.net
Mar 24-25 Owensboro, Owensboro Sports
Center' tbls $45, A: $5, Show Hours Sat 9-5 Sun 9-4 Midwest Promotions
270-521-6959 orhttp://greatbluewhale.blogspot.com/2012/03/kentucky-gun-shows-through-december.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (GreatBlueWhale)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8615175.post-9151692163752761353Tue, 20 Mar 2012 23:18:00 +00002012-03-20T19:18:17.958-04:00Senate Judiciary Committee will hear HB 500 on March 22ndHB 500 has been assigned to the Senate Judiciary Committee.
We need to start sending messages to the committee members by phone and email "move HB 500 out of committee and onto the Senate Floor with a favorable report".
Sen. Tom Jensen [Chair]
Sen. Katie Stine [Vice Chair]
Sen. Perry B. Clark
Sen. Carroll Gibson
Sen. Ray S. Jones
Sen. Jerry P. Rhoads
Sen. John Schickel
Sen. Dan "Malano" Seumhttp://greatbluewhale.blogspot.com/2012/03/senate-judiciary-committee-will-here-hb.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (GreatBlueWhale)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8615175.post-9049951352325577475Wed, 07 Mar 2012 00:09:00 +00002012-03-06T19:15:56.121-05:00Gun Bills get hearing in Kentucky House Wednesday, March 7th at noon.Wednesday, March 7th, all the NRA backed gun bills are being considered at the Kentucky House Judiciary Committee meeting at noon. Below was taken directly from the LRC website.
If you can make it, come and be seen and heard at noon in Annex Room 171.
Noon, Annex Room 171
HOUSE STANDING COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY
Agenda: Consideration of HB 111, HB 155, HB 156, HB 171, HB 396, HB 401, HB 433, HB http://greatbluewhale.blogspot.com/2012/03/gun-bills-get-hearing-in-kentucky.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (GreatBlueWhale)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8615175.post-6542005042862525992Mon, 14 Nov 2011 19:53:00 +00002011-11-14T14:55:32.989-05:00"... wishes of babies."Was listening to Joe Elliot's show on WGTK at lunch today. He was discussing the "Occupy" movement with callers. One of them had mingled with the Occupy Louisville folks, and after talking to them, his best description of what they wanted was "wishes of babies."
I wish I'd said that.http://greatbluewhale.blogspot.com/2011/11/wishes-of-babies.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (GreatBlueWhale)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8615175.post-6640335806020412682Mon, 10 Oct 2011 17:39:00 +00002011-10-10T13:39:50.052-04:00I, PencilI, Pencil
My Family Tree as told to Leonard E. Read
I am a lead pencil—the ordinary wooden pencil familiar to all boys and girls and adults who can read and write.*
Writing is both my vocation and my avocation; that's all I do.
You may wonder why I should write a genealogy. Well, to begin with, my story is interesting. And, next, I am a mystery—more so than a tree or a sunset or even a http://greatbluewhale.blogspot.com/2011/10/i-pencil.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (GreatBlueWhale)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8615175.post-8341036546018673458Mon, 22 Aug 2011 19:27:00 +00002011-08-22T15:27:43.343-04:00Ray Bradbury is 91 today.I shall go home and read Uncle Einar.http://greatbluewhale.blogspot.com/2011/08/ray-bradbury-is-91-today.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (GreatBlueWhale)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8615175.post-6327674380927733352Sun, 21 Aug 2011 01:37:00 +00002011-08-20T21:37:46.055-04:00NeighborsI was leaving the 'hood this morning, and saw a box of books sitting in a neighbor's driveway (subdivision yard sale). Not being one to pass up a box of books, I took a moment to check it out. Picked up "The Strong-Willed Child" by James Dobson to pass on to some new parents.
Chatting with my neighbor, whom I had not yet met, I found he was a gun-totin' NRA Life Member Tea Party kind of guy. My http://greatbluewhale.blogspot.com/2011/08/neighbors.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (GreatBlueWhale)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8615175.post-3156629631724446669Wed, 12 Jan 2011 18:17:00 +00002011-01-12T13:18:25.119-05:00Wait, you mean the gun didn’t make Loughner do it?As I’ve heard Dennis Miller say, the nutters are always gonna getcha. A Predictable Tragedy in Arizona from Dr. E. Fuller Torrey in The Wall Street Journal tells us that the amazing thing isn’t that the tragic shooting in Arizona occurred, but that it doesn’t happen more often. Why? Read the article. The big picture is even scarier. Based on Arizona's 2010 population and on estimates by the http://greatbluewhale.blogspot.com/2011/01/wait-you-mean-gun-didnt-make-loughner.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (GreatBlueWhale)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8615175.post-2779943381528652915Mon, 22 Nov 2010 13:13:00 +00002010-11-22T08:13:45.942-05:00It started out well… The house of representatives ... can make no law which will not have its full operation on themselves and their friends, as well as the great mass of society. This has always been deemed one of the strongest bonds by which human policy can connect the rulers and the people together. It creates between them that communion of interest, and sympathy of sentiments, of which few governments have http://greatbluewhale.blogspot.com/2010/11/it-started-out-well.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (GreatBlueWhale)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8615175.post-3184378691381851131Tue, 19 Jan 2010 00:59:00 +00002010-01-18T20:03:31.584-05:002010 Kentucky Gun Shows through AprilJan 30-31 Morehead, Ky Conference Center RK Shows 563-927-8176 email:kehrli8@n-connect.netJan 30-31 Paducah, Traders Mall, 150 tbls A: $5, Midwest Promotions LLC 270-521-6959Feb 6-7 Somerset, (Kenny Woods Gun Show LLC) The Center Map (2292 S. Hwy 27) RK Shows 563-927-8176 email:kehrli8@n-connect.netFeb 13-14 Lexington, Heritage Hall of Lexington Center Map RK Shows (Kenny Woods Gun Show, LLC) http://greatbluewhale.blogspot.com/2010/01/2010-kentucky-gun-shows-through-april.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (GreatBlueWhale)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8615175.post-5547624052554994789Wed, 10 Jun 2009 15:27:00 +00002009-06-10T11:27:34.893-04:00Puhlease….That was then: "Well, our job is to bash the president, that's what we do." --Newsweek editor Evan Thomas in February 2007 This is now: "We're understanding what Obama is. He is the great teacher. He is this guy that stands above everybody." -- Evan Thomas ++ "I mean in a way Obama's standing above the country, above -- above the world, he's sort of God." --Evan Thomas from http://greatbluewhale.blogspot.com/2009/06/puhlease.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (GreatBlueWhale)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8615175.post-5206896311929643667Tue, 12 May 2009 17:54:00 +00002009-05-12T14:13:14.112-04:00Kentucky Gun Shows through December 2009Jun 6-7 Louisville, Kentucky Fair & Expo Center 2100 tbls National Gun Day 513-523-3574Jun 20-21 Lexington, Heritage Hall of Lexington Center Map RK Shows (Kenny Woods Gun Show, LLC) 563-927-8176 email:kehrli8@n-vonnect.netJun 26-28 Shepherdsville. Paroquet Springs Conf. Ctr. Knife Show. Kentucky Cutlery Assoc. Jerry, 502-968-5946Jun 27-28 Ashland, El Hasa Temple Map RK Shows (Kenny Woods Gun http://greatbluewhale.blogspot.com/2009/05/kentucky-gun-shows-through-december.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (GreatBlueWhale)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8615175.post-1141316427483045715Tue, 14 Apr 2009 23:09:00 +00002009-04-14T19:24:19.704-04:00Going to be buying a lot of CDs...http://greatbluewhale.blogspot.com/2009/04/going-to-be-buying-lot-of-cds.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (GreatBlueWhale)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8615175.post-4373757324586002416Mon, 06 Apr 2009 14:13:00 +00002009-04-06T10:13:49.232-04:00Dr. Williams for President. I’d vote for him. "Most of our nation's great problems, including our economic problems, have as their root decaying moral values. Whether we have the stomach to own up to it or not, we have become an immoral people left with little more than the pretense of morality. ... Do you believe that it is moral and just for one person to be forcibly used to serve the purposes of another? And, if that person does not http://greatbluewhale.blogspot.com/2009/04/dr-williams-for-president-id-vote-for.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (GreatBlueWhale)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8615175.post-1762286573967774819Sun, 15 Mar 2009 00:52:00 +00002009-03-14T20:52:14.953-04:00Quid pro quo? Nah, never happen…Illinois law-maker wants Chicago hoplophobes to give a little. Not a snowball’s chance if you ask me. http://greatbluewhale.blogspot.com/2009/03/quid-pro-quo-nah-never-happen.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (GreatBlueWhale)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8615175.post-4358471949843194881Sun, 15 Mar 2009 00:45:00 +00002009-03-14T20:52:45.433-04:00FailPastor, best-selling author arrested at airport "Truly, it’s one of the stupidest things I’ve ever done. You can probably guess the rest. I was arrested, handcuffed, and taken to jail, where I was fingerprinted and photographed. Needless to say, it opened my eyes to a world I’d seen only in the movies. I was glad when I posted bail and was able to leave." http://greatbluewhale.blogspot.com/2009/03/fail.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (GreatBlueWhale)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8615175.post-5733907674504042149Thu, 12 Mar 2009 13:21:00 +00002009-03-12T09:21:22.809-04:00Handy Latin Phrasesfrom http://jimmyakin.typepad.com/defensor_fidei/2006/11/handy_latin_phr.html Non calor sed umor est qui nobis incommodat. It's not the heat, it's the humidity. Ecce hora! Uxor mea me necabit! Look at the time! My wife will kill me! Lex clavatoris designati rescindenda est. The designated hitter rule has got to go. Sentio aliquos togatos contra me conspirare. I http://greatbluewhale.blogspot.com/2009/03/handy-latin-phrases.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (GreatBlueWhale)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8615175.post-5739479005960921106Tue, 10 Mar 2009 18:44:00 +00002009-03-10T14:44:54.593-04:00Let's see if we can think this through...I'm seeing many stories about poor Mexico being inundated with "assault weapons" from the U.S.A. With rare exceptions, they point out the ease of legally buying a weapon in the U.S., and the steady flow of guns across the Rio Grande into the hands of drug cartels, the implication being that people are going to Joe's Sporting Goods, buying "assault weapons" at retail prices and selling them to http://greatbluewhale.blogspot.com/2009/03/let-see-if-we-can-think-this-through.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (GreatBlueWhale)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8615175.post-6384127567778154804Thu, 12 Feb 2009 19:51:00 +00002009-02-12T14:51:04.850-05:00He had one for about everything... Last year we said, 'Things can't go on like this', and they didn't, they got worse. Will Rogers http://greatbluewhale.blogspot.com/2009/02/he-had-one-for-about-everything.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (GreatBlueWhale)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8615175.post-6135590042458650188Thu, 12 Feb 2009 18:54:00 +00002009-02-12T13:54:22.367-05:00Tornado pollOver on Weather.com, I see the following. It doesn't surprise me. They're waiting on the Government to do it for them. Faced with a tornado warning, how prepared do you feel you are? Very prepared, we have a family preparedness plan in place 17.8% No clue, got any suggestions 53.4% Some what prepared, I have a mini-fridge, flat screen TV and a generator in my basement 28.7http://greatbluewhale.blogspot.com/2009/02/tornado-poll.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (GreatBlueWhale)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8615175.post-1783852805962670979Wed, 11 Feb 2009 15:49:00 +00002009-02-11T10:52:10.375-05:00...have Americans said, "To hell with the Constitution"?Another good read from Dr. Walter Williams. A more fundamental question is: Should Washington be guided by the Constitution? In explaining the Constitution, James Madison, the acknowledged father of the Constitution, wrote in Federalist Paper 45: "The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governmentshttp://greatbluewhale.blogspot.com/2009/02/have-americans-said-hell-with.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (GreatBlueWhale)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8615175.post-4207547945723869357Sat, 07 Feb 2009 23:57:00 +00002009-02-07T18:57:40.425-05:00I wonder…what 50 of these delivered from the various states to the President and Members of Congress might stir up? I’m not even going to post a quote. Go look. http://greatbluewhale.blogspot.com/2009/02/i-wonder.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (GreatBlueWhale)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8615175.post-7541778069225142583Wed, 28 Jan 2009 18:00:00 +00002009-01-28T13:01:08.593-05:00Who are the poor?Over on SurvivalBlog, Monday’s quote of the day was: "Americans who are in the bottom 10th of income distribution live better today than kings lived in 1800. They have better health care, cheaper entertainment, cheaper books, longer life expectancy, air conditioning, central heating, and much more. This has come as a result of the private property system, the future-orientation of a broad http://greatbluewhale.blogspot.com/2009/01/who-are-poor.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (GreatBlueWhale)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8615175.post-4597761707914682791Mon, 26 Jan 2009 16:24:00 +00002009-01-26T11:26:59.235-05:00Half-Truth from President ObamaIn his Inaugural Address, President Obama said, 'These are the indicators of crisis, subject to data and statistics. Less measurable but no less profound is a sapping of confidence across our land -- a nagging fear that America's decline is inevitable, and that the next generation must lower its sights.' This is true - if you're on the Left. The Right still sees America as a land of http://greatbluewhale.blogspot.com/2009/01/half-truth.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (GreatBlueWhale)0